Outside America Samsung is seen as the company of the people whereas Apple personifies everything greedy and corrupt in business. Personally I love Apple's products and am currently long the stock but they are seriously loosing ground in Europe.

I'm sure there are Korean neighborhoods where you only see Korean products. The Koreans are extremely nationalistic, and will always say they are the best. They were telling everyone what a great movie Dragon Wars was.

On January 14, 2008, Lee's home and office were raided by the Korean police for an ongoing probe into accusations that Samsung is responsible for a slush fund used to bribe influential prosecutors, judges, and political figures in South Korea.[17] On April 4, 2008 he denied allegations against him for his role in the Samsung Slush Funds scandal.[18] After the second round of questioning by the South Korean prosecutors which occurred on April 11, 2008, Lee was quoted by reporters saying "I am responsible for everything. I will assume full moral and legal responsibility.” On July 16, 2008, The New York Times reported that the Seoul Central District Court found him guilty on charges of financial wrongdoing and tax evasion. Prosecutors requested that Lee be sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $347 million. The court fined him $109 million and sentenced him to 3 years suspended jail time. Lee has not responded to the verdict.[19]On December 29, 2009, the South Korean government moved to pardon Lee Kun-hee.

If you are looking for ethical reasons to not invest in companies, then you exclude many companies. Nothing wrong with being an ethical investor, but considering how Foxconn treats employees, and deaths of workers at Apple contractors, you should exclude investing in AAPL too.

Ethically, yes, but legally no. Apple has tried to clean-up operations at Foxconn. The idea that Apple has no power to be a positive force for better working conditions at Foxconn is simply wrong; Apple chose to use Foxconn, and continued to use them despite worker deaths. I don't add morals into my investment choices, but when people try to drag that out, no company is completely immune from scrutiny.

Samsung was caught hiring students to trash the HTC One and now they have been caught doing the same to Apple. At 2:30 A M here which is about when the students get out of school, you will see a lot of anti Apple posts ans pro Samsung posts. This was just reprored today. Samsung is the lowest of the low.

1st, numbers are Unit Volume, NOT $ Volume. $ Volume Apple would have more like 60 - 70% of the Tablet market's sales. Because desperate companies like Amazon are selling their Kindles even below cost just to try and buy market share (AMZN's profits were down 45% last quarter). And APPLE even has a higher % of share of the Tablet Market's profits, probably 80% of its profits. The main thing that's gone on here, is several companies, like Amazon, are selling lower quality product at no profit or low cost, so the low cost end of the market is growing fast, especially in 3rd World Countries.

2nd re. Samsung's share, they must mean around the world... Few Samsung Tablets sold in USA. It says APPLE sold 23 mn. tablets last quarter, that's nearly 100 mn. yearly, so it had to be worldwide.

The money losing bottom half of the market where its sold only on price, is for Amazon, Acer, Dell, etc.

What is the difference in profit that each company has made on each tablet, Apple are still selling more than the competition, just because they don't double the number each quarter doesn't mean Jack......!

This is based upon device identities that appear after mobile search, though not specifically tablets. Trends in the United States are not matched Worldwide. Markets are more unique and diverse than simply blindly following the pattern established in the United States.

Exactly. Installed volume in use, or user base, will be the more important metrics in the future.

What market share, or new device sales, implies is that revenues are only generated at the point of sale. When you look at the profits from app sales, or in the case of BlackBerry the subscriber fees, then there are recurring revenues beyond selling an initial device. As the smartphone and tablet markets grew, these other revenue sources have been ignored. As we near saturation in some markets, and move towards a replacement market, then recurring revenues will garner more attention. We will see a replacement market when sales to existing users exceed new users.

I am writing from south Europe and I bought myself Galaxy Tab 2 and I love it. I bought it 360 euros while iPad costs like 550 euros so 200 euros cheaper. My friend have iPad but there is no big difference between the two. iPad may be a little faster or smoother but still, the difference in money is not so small. After me 2 of my other friends bought Galaxy Tabs and they Android is really kicking Apple ass in Europe. Maybe it's the crisis, maybe people just realize that they don't need to pay extra 200 euros, just because some item has Apple logo on it ...

I am here in the US, and though a lot of the lower level workers at my company are buying Samsung Galaxy S3s and other Android phones, the higher level guys and the managers are all iPhones. At our meetings, the iPhones sit on the table in front of people and it's fun to see what cases people have.

I think that people with money problems think 200 Euros are a lot of money for a device they will keep for a couple of years. But people who have some money to spend will think that 200 Euros or 300 dollars is not so much for something you use every day. Also, I think that if someone put an Android phone on the table, then everyone else will think that he likes cheap things.